Category Archives: Books/Literature

A few days ago, my Google + page lit up with links to an article a very respectable writer named Elizabeth Kolbert wrote in The New Yorker on parenting called “Spoiled Rotten.” I read the article on my laptop, as … Continue reading →

Laurel just read a book. She didn’t just read the words of an old familiar book in our collection, which she’s been doing for months. From memory. She read a new book she’d never seen before. I picked out some … Continue reading →

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.” After soaking up the last few chapters of Stephen King’s magnificent opus The Dark Tower, I had this overwhelming urge to recategorize my bookshelf to make room for … Continue reading →

OK, first I have a confession and an apology to two fine men: Mr. Stephen King and Allen J. Holt. More than a few years ago, when I was just a pretentious grad student of English, I found myself drunkenly … Continue reading →

One of the things that struck me over and over again in Anita Diamantâ€™s The Red Tent (1997, St. Martinâ€™s Press) is the fact that the reader is, in encountering the text, a participant in the unraveling of a history. … Continue reading →